A twenty-nine-year-old man identified as Owolabi Timothy is currently being interrogated at the Criminal Investigation Department, Iyaganku for defiling a thirteen-year-old in Ibadan.
The victim was said to be a virgin while she also had down syndrome and is unable to speak efficiently.
Owolabi who visited the victim’s family in the company of his cousin at 32, Adetola street Felele, Ibadan was alleged to have lured the girl into his host’s room, gagged and defiled her, on Thursday.
After defilement, Owolabi was said to have given her the sum of Five Hundred Naira, while warning her not to tell anyone else, or she will be dealt with.
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The victim’s mother, Iyabo, who had left her at home to get foodstuff for the family returned to find her daughter hiding under the stairs crying.
She could not explain to her mother, but it took the physical and medical examination to realise her daughter had been defiled.
Information revealed that she pointed in the room where she was abused and it was discovered that Owolabi had escaped.
The quick intervention of officers of Felele Police Station with the cooperation of Owolabi’s cousin got him apprehended at Toll-Gate where he was trying to flee to Lagos where he resides.
Neighbours alleged that he might have had company as he was seen with someone else that morning, but the cousin claimed that he single-handedly carried out the act.
Responding, Owolabi, who was in handcuffs, said the minor consented to the sexual act, adding that he did not lure her, but voluntarily followed him into the room and pulled down her pant herself.
“She stays upstairs, and whenever I go out, she normally waves at me, and we say, ‘My baby’ to each other.
“On Thursday, as she saw me going inside after I went to buy sachet water, the next thing I saw was her in my room.
“As a guy, I do not know what came over me. We played romantic play and then we had sex. I did not force her. I did not rape her; she pulled off her pants herself.
“Neighbors were in the house and would hear if I forced her. I did not lure her with anything. It’s only when they were looking for her that they saw traces that she came from my room,” Owolabi said.
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